Penda recently finished a Hotel, placed in a Hutong area in the centre of Beijing and reinterprets the Hotel’s surrounding by its form and materiality.

The XinXian Inn Hotel is located in the centre of Beijing, the Dongcheng District around the corner of Galaxy Soho on the eastern 2nd Ring road. The low-budget Hotel is neighbouring the Xinxian Hutong, a large area with traditional chinese courtyard houses, which entrances are now mostly blocked by newly constructed commercial buildings. Throughout Beijing, the rich culture and vivid life-style of the Hutong areas are mostly getting replaced by high-profitable and shallow real-estate blocks. With the XinXian Inn Hotel, we tried to incorporate the atmosphere and history of the Hutong areas into a hospitality design.

The client was intrigued by this idea to focus on the traditional forms and materials of the surrounding neighbourhood for several reasons. As every young entrepreneur he was on a small budget for the hotel. And throughout his life he liked the Beijing Hutong areas and this was one reason he chose this location. “I remember, one day in late 2016 a young guy knocked our Office Door and came in with an idea to revive a former traditional guesthouse. He also had written down 4000 Chinese characters that emphasised on his vision and on the history and rich culture of the district. This impressed me deeply, so we got started right away.” recalled Dayong Sun.

The 1.000sqm building was a former traditional guesthouse stretched over 2 floors, with small rooms and limited daylight.

On the hotels main facade we integrated a reversed view of a traditional Hutong House. The silhouette was cut into a massive brick-wall and executed as a large glass facade which brings daylight into the lounge and lobby area. The facade is a visible icon toward the storefront and mirrors the surrounding Hutong area with its dark bricks, natural wood and glass. The glass front is an open gesture to the outside and invites guests into the hotel. “Seeing guests chatting and relaxing, reflects in a way the traditional image Beijing, where the streets of a ARCHITECTURE DESIGN info @ home-of-penda.com www. home-of-penda.com No. 13 Nafu Hutong Dongcheng District +86 186 1068 6452 BEIJING VIENNA ‘XianXian Inn Hotel’ by penda Hutong area was a public space and people would discuss, take a rest, dance or play cards in front of their houses. I also reminded me when I first came to Beijing before the Olympic Games. A lot has changed since then”, says Chris Precht.

The original space was composed of a hall on the first floor, not very large, mainly for reception, and guest rooms on the second floor.

problems walking stairs. Being close to Beijing Railway Station and key hospitals, the hotel was and would still be frequented by elder tourists and patients from afar looking for better treatment in the capital.

Now, the first floor also features the public areas of the hotel, like the lobby and a lounge for visitors. All of the main functions are in a separate, wooden shelter. Walking into the hotel, the hallway seems like an alley wending through a neighbourhood of little houses. We placed a lot of plants along the way, so the atmosphere between inside and outside fades and the hotel creates a little Hutong by itself.

On the second floor, the existing layout had a 50m long tedious corridor with rooms on left and right. We reduced the amount of rooms to 50 and offered public areas into the new layout to break the monotony on one hand and offer working and meeting spaces for the guests. The idea to create gathering spaces, public areas or a neighbourhood atmosphere is a topic throughout the hotel.

For the hallway, we also chose dark bricks on the walls to intensify the atmosphere of walking in an alleyway through a Hutong. The wooden shelters are in a strong contrast to the haptic walls and should feel like little gazebos placed along the path.

The hotel was designed on one main theme: “Retrieving Memories.” Although Hutongs are an integral part of the “old” Beijing, we want them to serve as a cultural reminder in the city’s presence. An architectural heritage and culture of a place is shaped over centuries and should be a constant valuable companion in a future developments of the city.

With open and semi-open common areas, residences, commercial-function areas and educational structures, the “Sharjah Urban Renewal Project” designed by TAGO Architects in Sharjah will contribute to the economic and social development of Sharjah, which is the long-established industrial center of the region.

Producing projects for Europe, Central Asia and Far East in Tokyo, Bucharest, Kiev and Dubai offices as well as İstanbul central office, Tago Architects, led by Architect Gokhan Aktan Altug, signed an urban renewal project, which will be implemented in an area of 75,000 m² in Sharjah, which is one of seven emirates and the third largest and crowded city of United Arab Emirates. The project, which will be started to be built in 2020, aims to make significant contributions to the development of the regional industrial center Sharjah with its open and semi-open common areas, residences, commercial-function areas and educational structures.

Designed on a total area of 75,000 m² in four blocks, where there are currently unqualified industrial structures, houses and small commercial units, urban renewal project covers master plan work and architectural preliminary projects designing.

Locating of two educational structures, which constitute the education function that is one of the important elements of the project, in which Tago Architects, first of all, addresses distribution and functions of the blocks within themselves, has been prioritized because of that the educational structures are detailed and space-occupying buildings. Residences and commercial units are located to the areas remaining from educational structures. Within the scope of the project, a planning study has been carried out to the extent of the locations of crosswalks, underpasses and traffic lights on the T-shaped main lines.

The blocks designed within the project have been shifted backward at the corners according to the city plan and small-scaled squares have been created. Thus, the urban structure, which is desired to be developed and become the grid plan in a planned way, can be complied with. In the project where geographical and cultural data is one of the main design criteria, a controlled courtyard has been created by covering over the mall structure. The elevation of garden was shifted 1.5 meters downward from the elevation of residences to ensure privacy. The courtyard has been separated by a two-part screen and independent areas were created for women and men with two pools. Common area need has been met by creating a square at the center.

The project has been designed in accordance with very hot and sunny climatic conditions of the region. In the master plan, natural ventilation feature has been provided especially by creating narrow streets on sidewalks. The renewable GRC coating material used on the facade has been a good solution for removing the damages caused by exposure to hot weather and sunlight throughout the year. In the facade design, an approach, which regards comfortable indoors and is not so transparent, has been adopted. Shaded areas have been created with the arcades placed in the commercial areas with the aim of being the streets active during the day.

The Federal Way Performing Arts and Event Center (PAEC) puts cultural arts at the heart of urban vitality, establishing a core identity and focal point for a rapidly growing, richly diverse community. This multi-functional 46,013-square-foot center and adjacent civic park are positioned to catalyze ongoing development and investment in the city for years to come, ensuring Federal Way’s vibrant future in the region. The PAEC opened to the community on August 19.

Combining a 716-seat multipurpose performing arts theater, regional conference center, and future hotel co-development, the approximately $32.7 million project serves both public and private uses, leveraging market synergy and operational efficiency to provide a sustainable business model.

The new Center’s design capitalizes on the prominent downtown location of its 4-acre site, introducing pedestrian connectivity to surrounding uses, as well as new public gathering areas for an active urban presence. Expansive windows on the building’s south and west facades provide dramatic views to downtown Federal Way and Mount Rainier—linking inside and outside activities, while celebrating their remarkable natural setting. A flexible outdoor public space connects the Center to the recently completed Town Center Park and reinforces their shared role in bringing the community together.

“This project is about integrating and connecting with the community, catalyzing activity in and around the building, and focusing new energy to positively impact the public realm,” notes Wendy Pautz, AIA, Partner at LMN Architects. “With the transformative power of the arts, we are creating a civic asset that supports the cultural, social, and economic aspirations of the community—a place that will become essential to those who live here.”

The building represents a hybrid typology—a merging of theater and conference center that strikes a balance between the needs of both while enabling each to function independently. The building’s sculptural form derives from the spatial requirements of its program. Inside, spaces strategically maximize the interrelationships between areas. Meeting rooms, and even the lobby, are morphable and sub-dividable—capable of opening to one another as needed.

The signature, two-tiered theater space is a dramatic mix of natural wood and red-painted walls. Laser-cut wood panels wrap the auditorium seating area. Solid wood panels enclose the stage itself, gradually giving way to panels of increasing porosity as they extend away from the stage. As the wood panels slowly diminish, the red-painted walls of the circulation space become more evident, visually interweaving color and material.

The multipurpose venue is designed to accommodate theatrical, musical, dance, artistic, and spoken-word performances. Conferences, seminars, meetings, and other assembly events will also take place in both the auditorium and the adjoining 8,000-square-feet of event facilities. A catering kitchen and other support facilities will serve the entire Center’s wide-ranging purposes.

Broad expanses of glass—20-feet-tall—open the building to its surroundings and allow the community to look inside. On the outside, metal panels use three different textures in four different colors to create a pattern that divides the building into horizontal bands. These textures and colors not only animate the exterior envelope, but also provide a unique expression of the programs within.

The Federal Way Performing Arts and Event Center will provide a home for six key arts organizations: Federal Way Chorale, Federal Way Symphony, Federal Way Youth Symphony Orchestra, Jet Cities Chorus, Harmony Kings Chorus and the Tacoma City Ballet. These groups represent performers throughout the community who will soon have the chance to be “resident” artists for the first time.

A hotel is a public establishment that welcomes, in a given territory and for a limited time, travelers or tourists.

A tourist is a person who wants to rest from his day-to-day life, generally monotonous, and has no special need to establish new relationships. He wants to have some adventure, of course, to be able to explain it in the future bored nights. A tourist can only travel during work holidays.

Nothing built in the territory can be left. Everything is part of the landscape.

The private hotel developers and other businesses believe that a territory works better by removing what tradition has left us: walls, roads, terraces; things from another time. To urbanize, to parcel, to pave with sidewalks and lampposts; this is how agents treat the territory. Once the memory of the territory has disappeared, we do not need poets, artists, or language.

The project we present responds to the request for the refurbishment and expansion of a hotel built in 1972 on the beach of Talamanca (Ibiza). In an attempt to answer the questions, we asked ourselves: a change in the relation between the existing building and the environment through punctual actions on its facades. In order to do so, we propose some modifications on the facades composition, breaking the egoistical monotony of the previous project.

All this in a more appropriate search to the proportions of its environment, in which light and shadow define a way of being. We have also used materials closer to the constructive tradition of the island, both the current and the inherited: stone walls, warm stone floors…

It was also about adapting it to the new requirements: sustainability, current regulations, and the new needs of the new owners, reducing the number of rooms from 123 to 102 and an expansion of 12 more rooms in a new building.

The first sustainable strategy is, therefore, to propose an integral rehabilitation in which the structure will be conserved. Nowadays, it is necessary to conceive the rehabilitation of the housing heritage already built, as a way of global saving of energy and materials and a resource of necessary environmental adaptation. Refurbishing a building can mean an energy saving of 60% compared to tearing it down and rebuilding it and avoiding numerous environmental impacts.

For the improvement of production, the use of geothermal energy has been proposed. Geothermal air conditioning is an air conditioning system (heating and / or cooling) that uses the thermal inertia of the shallow subsoil in the form of heat at a constant temperature throughout the year. It is a clean energy that takes advantage of the temperature of the subsoil water to acclimatize in an ecological way, allowing a saving of 75% in the energy bill and a reduction in CO2 emissions.

The hotel we propose could be considered a miniaturized city. A hotel has two main parts: the public area (lobby, restaurant, bar etc.) and the private area (rooms). For the last, we propose a change on the generic hotel room which typically has a small corridor as a hallway and a bathroom in one of its sides. All the furniture and the room features are designed in accordance to electronic devices: so the room becomes not only a spaces for sleeping, but also a space for working, playing and receiving friends. Moreover, the bathroom features a shower that occupies part of the old terrace -having excellent views from the inside- and the sink is directly part of the room, making the last more spacious.

The common areas are unified into a single space: lobby, reception, dining room, bar and lounge are only differentiated by mobile furniture, so the space can host meetings, cultural and leisure activities.

Nestled in one of Europe’s most beautiful landscapes, the Lanserhof resort on the Tegernsee in Southern Bavaria offers 70 rooms and suites. Guests can enjoy preventative and regenerative treatments in this health resort. The Lanserhof combines luxury hotel facilities and state-of-the-art medical care under one roof.

The architecture of the Lanserhof matches and supports the health philosophy of the resort. The cubic building with clear lines integrates well into the landscape. The floor plan follows the classic concept of a cloister, whose wings surround a green and protected courtyard that offers ample space open to all guests. It is overlooked by the rooms and suites with the green façades of the two upper storeys. The architecture follows the principle of “less is more” to support the spirit of the place with a reduced and simple design, natural materials and abundant daylight.

Large windows and loggias open views to the surroundings of the bathhouse, a nearby golf course and the landscape. Sliding shutters with fine wooden lamellas provide visual privacy and solar shading for the loggias, and create open or semi-opaque spots. Like separate “houses”, the guest rooms reflect the principle that every guest should have his or her own place of refuge. Natural materials support the therapeutic effect of a stay at the resort and are part of an overall holistic approach towards a healing architecture. The health-promoting architecture emphasises research in building biology to ensure its compatibility with health aims. All choices were made in accordance with the criteria of the German Sustainable Building Council (DGNB). Mainly natural and untreated materials were used, such as larch from certified sustainable sources for the façades. Wooden surfaces, shades of white and warm colours create a contemplative ambiance in the treatment and social rooms. The light colours and the elegance of the interiors add to a peaceful and friendly atmosphere. The floor-to-ceiling windows and generous loggias at the front of each room provide broad views of the Tegernsee valley.

The space is based within the headquarters of an international shoe brand’s distributor company in Turkey and casual shoes are exhibited in this space. The showroom is used for presentation of season products to the dealer agents by the sales representatives of the brand, in order cycles.

Irrational plan of existing space was not convenient for the ‘’main volume’’ feeling that aspired to be created in accordance with the use case of the space. Also, because of having tha main circulation-terrace connection of the building on this floor, expectation of concentration while using would be harmed. In accordance with these inputs, the space is divided with a seperator wall to a main volume that holds the meeting table in the center and to a circulation axis that left behind by the wall and a smaller exhibition space integrated to that axis.

Casual category of the brand products that appeal to an active, comfortable and urban life style, served a referance for gathering familiar components which form a platform for daily life activities. Decisions about the materials, designs of the exhibition units used for specialized product groups and movable furniture selections took shape within this approach.

There were different sub product groups in casual catagory of the brand which vary by classification and count every season. A modular and dynamic shelf system is designed that provides opportunity for sales representatives to organise their exhibition styles by classifying products in an easy and flexible way, and so as to present variability according to different customers, in order cycles. This system creates a pattern on wide side in main volume of the space, even when there are no products or fully loaded. System is created by mounting solid wood pieces which can stay closed and open, to interior wall with a simple mechanism that can turn pivot in front of the wall. This system, which can also used with the purpose of seperating selected/non-selected products by the visitors, strengthen user-space relation from the point of providing opportunity to interactive use. This shelf system is repeated with a variation that creates a semipermeable situation on line of the divider wall which surrounds the main volume. The space gained transparency with this variation at the rate of intensity in closed and open position of wood pieces.

World’s first public net-surplus-energy building—it generates more energy than it consumes.

The new building of the first construction phase of the new town hall in Freiburg im Breisgau with its administration center and day nursery is the world’s first public building built to the net-surplusenergy standard and accommodates the 840 employees of the City Administration under one roof after they had previously been spread over 16 different sites throughout the city.

The new administration center, which is part of the town hall extension for the City of Freiburg, is designed to provide a stimulus for upgrading the Stühlinger area of Freiburg in terms of town planning and urban design, and to provide a green belt link between Eschholz Park and the University Hospital.

The winning entry by ingenhoven architects to the 2013 international architectural competition embodies the principles of openness and transparency and incorporates a “green campus” concept, in which three building tracts and a day nursery are combined.

The ensemble of the new town hall buildings is integrated in the green space between Eschholz Park and the University Hospital—the linking effect is reinforced by vistas and a public pathway network. By increasing the public space at Fehrenbachallee, space has been opened up for a new address, thereby creating an attractive public city square. The main entrance to the new building is situated opposite the existing building. The second construction phase will create additional oval buildings providing workplaces for the City’s administration.

The heart of the new six-story building, which replaces a town hall pavilion from the 1960s, is the citizens’ service center with conference rooms, and staff restaurant on the first floor. The floors above include single and double offices, as well as large team offices with open-plan desk arrangements for the respective departments of the City Administration. Thanks to a variable glazed partition wall system the plan layout of the offices is flexible and reversible. The routes through the town hall are designed in a transparent and open way, allowing easy orientation; there are several areas placed throughout the building that are designed to promote interaction and communication.

The visual appearance of the two buildings is impressive—the facades feature locally sourced larch wood elements. The facade of the town hall has been constructed using staggered, vertically projecting modules with photovoltaic cells and high-quality thermal insulation. Story-high glazed facade elements are used to optimize the intake of daylight. The facade of the circular day nursery building features narrow strips of vertical timber cladding and large openings with balcony doors, as well as an access balcony at second floor level. The openings have been placed to provide daylight and vistas to the outside while also offering direct access to the building.

The new Freiburg Town Hall is the first net-surplusenergy building of this category worldwide.

The building will generate more energy than it uses throughout the year; excess energy is fed into the city’s mains network.

In accordance with the strict criteria of the PassivHaus standard, the primary energy demand of the town hall for heating, cooling, ventilation, and hot water supply is as low as 45 kWh per square meter per year—which is only forty percent of the primary energy demand of comparable modern office buildings.

A special effort has been made to apply the principle of sustainability to the building as well as to the energy concept. The design relies on straightforward technical solutions that are economical to operate. The thermal energy required for the building is generated via suction and injection wells and thermal solar panels in combination with heat pumps, while electric energy is generated by photovoltaic panels on the roof and in the facade. The energy for cooling and heating is obtained from a geothermal installation. In addition, thermal mass activation is used for heating, which can be individually controlled in each office. The mechanical ventilation has been enhanced by highly efficient heat recovery.

The room climate concept for the offices involves thermal mass activation, heating/cooling sails, external solar screening, triple-glazing, and mechanical background ventilation with heat recovery, which are all part of the energy-saving concept. In addition, users have the benefit of openable ventilation panels which they can use to manually control the room climate by letting in fresh air. In the public areas of the citizens’ service center, restaurant, and conference area, the more complex air-conditioning requirements are met with heating and cooling ceiling systems and a partial air-conditioning system with highly efficient heat recovery.

The citizens’ service center with its 100 employees offers citizens general and advisory services. All offices and workplaces have been designed for functionality, openness, and working in a flat hierarchy, whilst providing privacy and security. Overall, the spaces appear generous and flowing thanks to their rounded shape, and ensure easy orientation. Large rooflights provide plenty of daylight and offer good vistas to the outside. The downlights in the white perforated ceiling panels have been arranged in seemingly random fashion to create the impression of a “star-studded night sky”. The advisory points are subdivided into four large rotundas, each of their centers being formed by a circular retreat room. The layout of the segmental arch-shaped desks follows a concentric pattern, with vertical acoustic panels used as dividers. To create privacy between adjoining advisory points, 160 cm high visual screens are installed that replicate the round design pattern of the rotundas. A piece of wall art by the Berlin artist Schirin Kretschmann in the midst of the spatial arrangement forms an omnipresent element and the “spine” of the space.

Bright materials and surfaces underscore the impression of transparency and clarity; occasional color accents appear within the orange/red spectrum, particularly in the furniture design.

ingenhoven architects was founded in 1985 and is one of the practices pioneering sustainable architecture, having won numerous competitions and awards. Using the term supergreen®, ingenhoven architects pursues a comprehensive sustainability concept. The practice develops and builds projects of any size and typology in almost all parts of the world—all in accordance with the highest green building standards such as those of LEED, Green Star, BREEAM, DGNB, and CASBEE. In 1997, the practice achieved international recognition with the RWE tower in Essen, one of the world’s first ecological high-rise buildings. Since 1997 ingenhoven architects has been designing the Stuttgart 21 underground railway station. A number of award-winning highrise building projects were completed in Singapore, Japan, and Australia. At its head office at Düsseldorf’s port, the practice employs about 90 architects, draftsmen, and model builders of 20 nationalities. In addition, the practice maintains international branches in Zurich, Sydney, Singapore, and Santa Clara (CA).

In 1976 architects Jean and Veronique Boland-Springal designed and built a row house for themselves in the sleeping quarters in Brussels. Even though owners changed several times and the building went through several maintenances, main spaces and architecture stayed the same. The dwelling is organized into 6 levels, which creates compelling spaces, engaging perspectives and connects street and inner-courtyard on different levels. Building framework is from monolithic concrete columns and slabs and is compressed in a 5m gap between masonry brick walls. Bay windows with an open concrete structure framework are duplicated in the interior spaces. Meanwhile, the captured representation was oppressing – everything was painted in various colors and enclosed with diverse materials, which were physically and morally worn out.

In the interior project, we attempted to emphasize main values of the building – existing spaces, concrete structure and warm of the masonry bricks. Firstly, the whole area was cleared up of unnecessary partitions, doors, massive furnace, even the courtyard was purged off from old brushwood. Since deep spaces lack natural light, we solved it with a help of white surfaces, transparent partitions and railings. Consequently, variant level space between living and dining rooms becomes more solid and continuous. Guest toilet gets the natural light through the transparent glass block partition, while master cloakroom – from an opening in the wall. Masonry bricks, which are inherent for Brussels, were polished and displayed at one side of the dwelling. Wall’s rough texture and warm color unexpectedly mediates and moderately highlights main spaces. Concrete structures are exposed on the white surfaces. Beams of various forms, columns, bay windows are sanded from paint and become an active participant in the interior space. Furthermore, all furniture, doors and partitions are tied to these elements. Reinforced concrete, together with masonry bricks becomes a peculiar heritage (even from 70’s) on the background of new surfaces materials, for this reason, we tried to avoid the abundance of them. Basically, these are lush playful-patterned parquet, subtle grey tiles in the basement, utility rooms and white painted surfaces. The airy mood is livened up by camouflage green color, which appears on different furniture and surfaces, as well as new black/white heaters harmonized to dwelling’s epoch times.

For now, the building continues to exist side-by-side with the new growing family, so eventually the interior will be filled in with designed inside/ outside furniture, additional lightning and courtyard will lush with new greenery.

What home is? In addition to being a safe haven, it is a place that accommodates and extends all kinds of possibility and happiness. Besides meeting requirements of basic “living” function, the role it plays could be richer and varied. It could be gamelike,interesting changes could be generated from its shape, function or sense.

This project is one of the many among the urban concrete jungle. Yet,through mixing elements of boxes, flake-like structure and colors, and combining the big round bucket penetrates from the upper floor, the designer created aninteresting spacewithin this stereotyped and dull concrete frame.

Gerrit Thomas Rietveld, the designer of Red and Blue Chair said:”structure is to coordinate the constructions, to fully guarantee the independence and integrity among the constructions.”Samephilosophy is adopted in the design of this space, showing the space through its forms, to convey an image of free. Space function could be changed freely just by moving the pieces of the boxes. The piece shaped movable walls extend the space unlimitedly, and provide flexible use functions. It could turn from “open” to “private” in one minute.

In the open space, there are two big round buckets with different diameters, they cut through the floor and go down, becoming a large installation art in the space. The special paint finishing of the inner layer of the large round bucket shows the exquisite beauty of Oriental culture. It creates a kind of visual stimulation no matter you look top-down or bottom-up. And combining with lighting design, they work as light fittings. The big round bucket, small round bucket and the concave timer form an inverted triangle, making the usage of elements three-dimensional and interesting. Boxes and round buckets in the space have different meanings: boxes with straight lines represent the rational thinking of western science, while the round buckets represent perfection in Oriental humanistic spirit. The blending of eastern and western elementsopens up a harmonious dialogue here. The arrangement of furnishing is not limited by space, object or direction; multiple way of usage gives new definition to modern residence. Light is illumination as well as guide and signs. Through the guidance of light, you will see a space which is simple but full of oriental elegance. Wallpaper with classic oriental colors and textures, matched with copper wall lamps and blocks of light color, creates a bright, elegant and comfortable atmosphere.

The atmosphere of the whole space is just like a piece of music with high and low pitch notes, and a light song which is rich in rhythm. The collision of low-key rustic materials and exquisite craft shows a slight sense of luxury within the modest design. While the rough texture of cement presents a kind of perfection within imperfection–a kind of spiritual yearning.

Wei Yi International Design Associates was founded in 2003. For multi-directional extension of the design concept, the brand Newspaper was set up in 2009. Brand symbol N is presented in the way of “Po Bi” of Chinese calligraphy in oriental culture; it implies the design concept of Wei Yi International Design Associates.

The fortress Franzensfeste was built between 1833 and 1838 and consists of three autonomous parts: the upper, the middle and the lower fortress. First, the lower part and then the upper part has been renovated. In 2014/15 the building body C with the Infopoint BBT has been converted and expanded. This had been severely destroyed in the 1970s by the transfer of the state road.

The basic idea behind the revitalization of the existing structures was the preservation of the unaffected state and the use of the fortress by minimal interventions. Patina and aura of the fortress were to remain in accordance with the new interventions for the development and use. Few carefully selected elements create new connecting paths in the plant and thus make it possible to use as an exhibition space. The materials are selected in accordance with the local conditions of the fortress. The chromaticity and the materiality create “abstract” references to the existing architecture, but nevertheless allow a clear readability of the new interventions. The basic principle of the restoration “Old is old – new is new” is extended in the sense of a dialogue between historical stock and contemporary architecture. The focus was on the preservation of the buildings and the preservation of the fortress squares.

The area along the road is separated from the road by an expanded metal grid, which is set back about 50 cm from the outside edge of the rock.

The outline of the building 10 is traced in its ground plan and is executed as covering the tunnel hole. The new construction of this volume, arranged above the street and with a strong connection with the existing context, can be regarded as an “increase” due to its architectural and static challenges. It thus makes it possible to access the destroyed area. Through this intervention it becomes possible again to open up all historical fortress remains.

The new hall is set up as a “box” (room in space principle) in the reconstructed building envelope of the building 10 and executed in two-layered black insulating clay with interposed thermal insulation.

Laterally there will be a passage which ensures the rainproof connection between the various buildings, even in case of an event. The arrivals from the lower level (new main entrance) as well as the elevator and a small open foyer area are also located in the rain-protected area of ​​this roof slab.

The new visible materials are few and simple materials that blend harmoniously into the historical context.